Borderlands La Frontera Quotes

“At some point, on our way to a new consciousness, we will have to leave the opposite bank, the split between the two mortal combatants somehow healed so that we are on both shores at once and, at once, see through serpent and eagle eyes.
-- Borderlands/La Frontera (1987)”
― Gloria Anzaldúa

“Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border

“It seems jolly on the page. But imagine poverty, violence, natural disasters, or political fear driving you away from everything you know. Imagine how bad things get to make you leave behind your family, your friends, your lovers; your home, as humble as it might be; your church, say. Let's take it further - you've said good-bye to the graveyard, the dog, the goat, the mountains where you hunted, your grade school, your state, your favorite spot on the river where you fished and took time to think.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border

“I believe the root of this strength of will came from my mother and father, from the work they taught me to do in the borderlands, the work that had broken many backs, the work that was a scream against the desert dust, this work that taught me about the song of nothingness in my bones and why the only way to live was to die on my feet.”
― Sergio Troncoso, A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son